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A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and remains open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was told that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a association online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months leading up to the trip to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a communication which said: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I desired to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.